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233: 20: 141: 352:. Life Writing is indeed a broad and multifaceted genre that involves documenting personal experiences, thoughts, and emotions in a variety of forms. The boundaries of this genre have evolved over time, with debates on what exactly qualifies as life writing. Traditionally, it has been closely associated with autobiography, which is a formal, structured form of self-narrative, but the genre has expanded significantly. 251:
his interest to analyze the relationship between self-representation and reality, since self-portraits often do not aim at the mere faithful reproduction of objectively identifiable traits, but, being intentional constructions, they can be allegorical, idealizing, critical, symbolic, psychological, satirical, philosophical, reflective.
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should not be confused. Categorization is the process by which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and classified, and consists of organizing the objects of a given universe into groups or categories, with a specific purpose. It is a fundamental mechanism for reason, communication, and
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Self-portraiture as a theoretical field attempts to answer several questions in modern times, from the most basic: what is a self-portrait? Or, why over the centuries has the number and quantity of works dedicated to it grown? Or why selfies have become a global phenomenon? It is also the object of
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Researchers still investigate self-portraits because they unfold many aspects of the artist's personal life and perception of himself and his relationships with his social environment, his peers, his time, culture and history, question artistic language, communication, poetics and style (visual or
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For a long time, self-portraits were included as small details in larger works, usually works of a religious nature, but from the Renaissance onwards they began to appear in a more striking way, to soon gain full independence in autonomous works.
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Enenkel, Karl & Liebregts, Peter. "Introduction". In: Enenkel, Karl; Jong-Crane, Betsy de; Liebregts, Peter (eds.). Modelling the Individual. Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance. Rodopi, 1998, pp.
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Reynolds, Anna & Peter, Lucy. "Producing and collecting portraits of artists". In: Reynolds, Anna; Peter, Lucy; Clayton, Martin (eds.). Portrait of the Artist. Royal Collection Trust, 2016, pp. 9-12
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Reynolds, Anna & Peter, Lucy. "Producing and collecting portraits of artists". In: Reynolds, Anna; Peter, Lucy; Clayton, Martin (eds.). Portrait of the Artist. Royal Collection Trust, 2016, pp. 9-12
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the practice began to gain momentum, following the growing appreciation of the question of authorship in the study of artistic works, and an appreciable number of self-portraits of scribes and copyists
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Culture of the Selfie is an in-depth art-historical overview of self-portraiture, using a set of theories from visual studies, narratology, media studies, psychotherapy, and political principles.
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are most recognized. On the other hand, there are millions of self-portraits produced by unrecognized characters in the field of art who, no matter how brilliant they are, do not enter the
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Self-portraiture has a long history. In Reynolds & Peter's analysis, the handprints that prehistoric humanity left in cave paintings can be considered precursors of the
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Ferreira, Teresa Pinto da Rocha Jorge. Autorretratos na Poesia Portuguesa do SĂ©culo XX. Doutorado. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2019, pp. 23-27 (in portuguese)
362:: The detailed description of a person’s life, usually written by someone else, which can offer an objective or interpretive perspective on the subject’s life. 254:
The self-portrature as an academic study only emerged in the twentieth century. In fact, it was with the monograph of Ernst Benkard (1927) and, later, that of
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works. Another focus of the research is to analyze the changes in the understanding of the meaning of the self-portrait over the centuries and its reception.
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production, however, if we look at the contemporary literature, we will see that the universe of academic studies, mainly, is focused on several disciplines.
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produced a great number. Rare is the artist, these days, who has not been seduced by self-representation. Self-portraiture has become very common.
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Ana Peraica wrote, about self-portraiture today, in view of the prolification of the production of self-portraits, particularly the so-called
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Caro, M. A. The native as image: art history, nationalism, and decolonizing aesthetics. Thesis. Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 155-157
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The advent of new technologies today, especially since the 1980s, has had an extraordinary impact on the practice of self-portraiture.
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has been known since the seventeenth century. Although, when we refer to self-portraiture almost simultaneously, we are remitted to
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Haifeng, Xuan. Modes of Painting in the Self-Portraits of Marlene Dumas. Master. University of the Witwatersrand, 2012, pp. 25-27
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Personal Essay: A reflective form of writing that often blurs the line between the personal and the philosophical or critical.
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In the visual arts, it is easy to notice the growth of artists' representations as the very theme of their creations.
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as an artistic practice, as a specific field of study, self-portraiture is recent, but it has been expanding rapidly.
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It is possible that self-portraiture has accompanied the emergence of the individual's perception in modern society.
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It's not something to be surprised about. Before this time it was not possible for artists to use this resource.
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Five Hundred Self Portraits from Antique Times to the Present Day in Sculpture, Painting, Drawing and Engraving
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An Anthropology of " self ": pondering on the use of the self-portrait in contemporary photography
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Currently, almost everyone has the possibility of having a portable device capable of producing a
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Renaissance Self-Portraiture. The Visual Construction of Identity and Social Status os the Artist
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Gu, Y (2018). "Narrative, life writing, and healing: The therapeutic functions of storytelling".
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that studies the history, means of production, circulation, reception, forms, and meanings of
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Peraica, Ana. Culture of the Selfie : Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture
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literary), and intertwine the public and the private. Personhood and impersonality, being
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cognition. This is, by the way, because the term "selfie" only appears in the 1980s.
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In its modern conception, Life Writing includes various subgenres such as:
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Irony and the Ethics of Self-Portraiture in Montaigne's De la praesumption
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The origins of photography date back to the discoveries of the
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Self-portraiture initially emerged as a phenomenon within the
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was the first to develop a series of works. Centuries later,
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Very rare, in this period, works such as that undertaken by
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Self-portraiture in literature is mainly identified with
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their books and parchments, mostly anonymous, survive.
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On the development of individualism in society, see
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Albrecht DĂĽrer
Self-portrait
Prado
Madrid
field
art theory
history
self-portraits
Antiquity
Renaissance
selfies
visual arts
selfie
artistic
DĂĽrer
Rembrandt

Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez
self-portrait
Ancient Egypt
Classical Antiquity
Middle Ages
illuminate
humanistic
individual
Selfies
History of Art
Uffizi Gallery

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